ABWA Official Website – On Sunday, May 7, 2023, the session of the ABNA News Agency Policy and Planning Council was held in Tehran under the chairmanship of Ayatollah Reza Ramazani, Secretary General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly. The participants in the session were Dr. Abdul Hossein Kalantari, Mr. Gholamreza Sharifi, Dr. Abdul Reza Rashed, Hojat al-Islam Mahdi Farmanian, Mohammad Mahdi Shariatmadar, and Hassan Sadraei Aref. /345/

The Iraqi member of the General Assembly of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly stated, “Shiites have no presence in Samarra. The servants of the shrine of the two Askari Imams (a.s.) who brought their families to the city of Samarra live either in the area under the supervision of the shrine, or in the houses purchased by the shrine.”

On the occasion of the commemoration anniversary of Al-Shaykh al-Saduq, the Department for Scientific and Cultural Affairs of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly created a research profile for him in Google Scholar.

In a statement, the Vice Chairman of the Supreme Council of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly expressed his condolences for the terrorist incident in Parachinar and the martyrdom of several Pakistani Shiite teachers.

A member of the General Assembly of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly from India stated, “More than 70% of people in India are Hindus, and Muslims are a minority in the country. Therefore, in general, the Muslims of India are facing challenges. When Muslims are a minority in the country, the Shiites of India are considered a minority within a minority.”

The Secretary General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly stated, “The translator must know the semantic capacities of the words in the source and target languages well, and then choose the closest equivalents, which convey the general meaning in addition to the meaning of the word.”

The seminar “Necessities and Principles of Translation and Publication of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) Teachings in Azerbaijan” and the review of the translation of the book “A thousand hadiths on the Virtues of Imam Ali (a.s.)” in Azeri language was held at the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly in Qom.

Hojat al-Islam Dr. Najaf Lakzai, the president of the Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy, along with the accompanying delegation, visited the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly, and met and talked with Ayatollah Reza Ramazani.